Exploring Parental Control and its Impact on Secondary Level Students’ Attitude Towards Studies

Abstract

In the present study, we examined the relationship between parental control
and secondary level students’ attitude towards studies. The population of
the study was the male and female Secondary level students and their
parents of all the boys’ and girls’ government secondary schools of Tehsil
Sargodha. A sample of 150 students of the10th class and their parents were
selected on an availability basis from the randomly selected 30 secondary
schools including 10 Boys and 20 Girls schools. Two self-developed
research instruments including one for parents’ control and the other for
students’ attitude were used. To analyse the data, statistical calculations
including frequency, percentage, mean score, standard deviation, t-test,
one-way ANOVA and correlation were used. The findings showed that the
parents with more public dealing professions tend towards the strict and
highly strict level of parental control and there exist a positive and moderate
relationship between parental control and students’ attitude towards studies.
The study recommends that parent teacher regular meetings may be
organized for parents ‘awareness to adopt better control strategy.